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Bangladesh Set to Manufacture Nokia Mobile Phones

One solution for making the logistic country that borders India and is also an a factory in Bangladesh and got all the
more affordable and efficient is to start important market with a lot of potential permission to assemble Nokia devices.
manufacturing smartphones in countries consumers. Nokia is not the only brand This should cover the costs of shipping
with a large population. Nokia Mobile that started the assembly of its phones and logistics for Nokia. Samsung, OPPO,
started manufacturing phones in India there. The same maneuver was done by Realme, Tecno, Itel are all manufacturing
not long ago, which are mostly intended Samsung, OPPO, and Realme. Vibrant their devices in Bangladesh. Some 85% of
for the Indian market, but also the Software (BD) Ltd is the company that will the smartphones are manufactured locally
export. Now, Nokia Mobile plans to start be doing the production. The company and 55% of both smartphones and feature
manufacturing phones in Bangladesh, a received approval from BTRC to set up phones are sold there.

EU Looks to Work with India on 5G Security Standards

The European Union is looking to work of “a systematic rivalry”, supposedly on the full TDD mode similar to China,
with the Indian government to create hinting at heightened concerns around the USA, Japan. Positions on other bands
open and transparent security standards Chinese vendors. Recently, a report titled are not yet official but are part of the
for 5G technology rollouts across Europe 'Shaping Europe’s digital future' revealed cooperation discussion between 5G-IA
and India, as concerns grow about the that the 5G Infrastructure Association, and TSDSI. Besides, the Commission
dominance of Chinese telecom giants. the private side of the 5G Infrastructure cooperates with the Indian government
A report by Bloomberg quoted European Public Private Partnership (5G PPP), on digital issues including 5G through the
Commission (EC) EVP Margrethe Vestager signed a Memorandum of Understanding EU-India co-operation dialogue on Digital
saying that the EU has intentions to with the Telecommunications Standards Communications as well as the EU-India
collaborate with India on creating global Development Society, India (TSDSI) two Joint Working Group on ICTs. Alongside
standards for security and transparency years ago intending to foster industrial the US and India, several EU nations
in 5G rollouts. EU officials are expected to cooperation between India and Europe. moved to impose restrictions on the use of
meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and This cooperation targets regular and equipment made by companies including
discuss the telecom security matter as structured exchange of information Huawei and ZTE when building 5G
part of a broader discourse on security and of regional developments including networks over worries of ties with China’s
trade issues during the India-EU summit regulatory and 5G spectrum approaches government. The EU reportedly needs to
in Portugal on May 8. The Commissioner technological approaches towards pour US$355 billion into deploying next-
reportedly highlighted the EU’s desire standardization, deployment experience, generation networks, and India is thought
to collaborate with democratic partners and involvement of vertical industries in to require US$70 billion.
on establishing open standards for 5G the 5G ecosystem. India has decided to
rollouts and protect networks in the light distribute the 2.6 GHz spectrum based

Telekom Rolls Out 5G at 75 Locations

Telekom Deutschland, the domestic fixed past two months. Thanks to Dynamic locations and installed 4G at 178 new lo-
and mobile unit of German telecoms group Spectrum Sharing (DSS), LTE can also be cations, increasing population coverage
Deutsche Telekom (DT), has installed 5G used at these locations. The firm adds that to 98.7%, while 5G services cover 80% of
at 75 locations across the country in the it created additional LTE capacities at 173 Germans. ‘We are pushing the pace with
the expansion of mobile communications.
We currently have more than 32,000 loca-
tions in operation and we will set up more
than 1,500 new locations every year,’ com-
mented Walter Goldenits, Managing Direc-
tor Technology at Telekom Deutschland,
adding: ‘In addition, there are LTE and 5G
expansions at thousands of existing lo-
cations. As part of our massive expansion
activities, 5G will become the new stan-
dard in Telekom’s cellular network.’
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